Sarah Manley

Last year, we began experimenting with some video features on a
certain set of test wikis. Our goal was to gauge our visitors'
interest in watching videos. Our findings were not surprising:
people love to watch on-topic videos.

The main tool we used to test this was the Related Videos module
(which you can see in the right rail). It was built as a
proof-of-concept feature and we knew it wasn't scalable to launch
on many more wikis. We've reached the point in our Video project
where we're confident enough to turn on for more wikis (release
plan TBD). However, this requires some functionality changes.

The module was customizable on a page-level. For example, for
the "Janitor" article on Scrubs, I could add many videos solely
about the J…